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Crashed_Again 12-11-2003 03:06 PM
Output of ls -l
 
ummm...heres a noob one for ya. I get this for ls -l:

-rw-r--r-- 1 vince vince 3226 Nov 17 08:04 XF86Config
drwxrwxr-x 11 vince vince 4096 Dec 11 08:44 downloads
drwx------ 8 vince vince 4096 Nov 30 20:03 evolution


What is that number to the left of the owner? For downloads its 11, for evolution its 8, and for XF86Config its 1. I've noticed that all the directories have a number greater then one and all the files are one but I can't find what this number means.

Tinkster 12-11-2003 03:10 PM
info ls

It's the number of links to that file.



Cheers,
Tink

Crashed_Again 12-11-2003 03:14 PM
You da man.

Tinkster 12-11-2003 03:38 PM
/me bows to his fellow-LQer


Cheers,
Tink

ac1980 12-11-2003 06:28 PM
> It's the number of links to that file.

Actually, it's the number of hard links to it.
Most notably, for dirs it's usually equal to number of subdirs+2 (due to the .. links, i suppose)


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